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November 11, 2013

Stories, Sandals & Saucepans

ENG Don't miss this! Three installations composed of objects collected from the world’s refugees, on show until 16 November, 2013 at the cultural center Stoa (free entrance):

Crocheted tent (not the first one featured in this blog, See the below link), Trail of sandals, and A group of cauldrons pictured together... – It was here, at Stoa, I met the people planning to open a "Trash Pavilion" in Helsinki next summer, and we sat in a magical tent that one of the group's founding members, installation artist and filmmaker Tikke Tuura, has decorated with some 800 handicrafts from refugee women. The artist has also collected plastic sandals and saucepans from refugees, asking the donators to tell their stories and photographing them. (For her latest work, she's collecting odd socks... )

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Recyclie, that's me, a foodie gone (re)cycling: This blog's all about bicycle riding, living and cooking on a shoestring, and, naturally, recycling, or "repairing, repainting, reinterpreting, reviving, redeploying or simply relishing" – to quote one of my favorite interior designers and authors, Ilse Crawford–, feminine and Finnish style, with an Italian twist. In real life, I'm a Helsinki-based interpreter and translator, as well as the author of "Reilun kaupan ruokaa ja elämää" (Perhemediat, 2009), that is, the first Finnish Fairtrade cookbook.